Profile: Steve Clevenger gets high marks from Baseball America and many of the fans who have a taste for catcher defense. And though the left-handed Clevenger has humbled many a minor league pitcher, he currently looks positioned behind both Welington Castillo and Dioner Navarro for serious plate appearances in Chicago. Anything could change, of course, and a full-time Clevenger could make for a prudent waiver-wire acquisition -- or late-draft acquisition, if the Cubs' catching situation has changed that drastically by draft time. All told, he makes for an interesting long-term investment, but looks likely to have only limited fantasy value in 2013. (Bradley Woodrum)

The Quick Opinion: Steve Clevenger has the prospect chops and minor league hitting numbers to suggest he can be a useful catcher in the near future, but until the catching situation changes in Chicago, Clevenger looks likely for the number three spot on the catcher depth chart. Still, keep an interested eye on him.

Profile: After splitting time with Geovany Soto and Welington Castillo in Chicago in 2012, Clevenger made his way to the Orioles along with Scott Feldman in exchange for pitchers Jake Arrieta and Pedro Strop last year. At best in 2014, he will backup Matt Wieters, and the former cub provides light insurance in that regard. Clevenger walks (at a 7% clip for his major league career), makes a decent amount of contact (career 18% contact rate) but hits for very little power (.075 isolated slugging percentage) and very low average (.204). His real life value is almost entirely from his league-average defense, and that doesn’t help a lick in a fantasy setting. If desperate times led you to this page, keep moving. It’s not worth it and you’re better than this. (Jack Weiland)

The Quick Opinion: Seriously?

Profile: What's to say about Steve Clevenger? At 29, he appears to be a back-end Quad-A guy. He's had some pretty consistent success in the minors but has never gotten significant playing time nor hit well in the majors. With the Orioles gathering a number of backstops into the 2015 fold — most of them younger and/or better than Clevenger — he'll either serve as organizational depth for the Orioles or for some other team. His average defense and decent plate discipline assure that he hasn't taken his final at bat in the majors, but he'll probably never warrant a second thought in fantasy leagues. (Robert J. Baumann)

The Quick Opinion: You know what they say: A Clevenger without a home is...well...not...quite...fantasy material?

Profile: Have you ever not almost completed the word "Cleveland" when typing out "Clevenger"? Just me? Okay then... Clevelander has never logged more than 215 plate appearances in a given season so it's really tough to give much weight to his major league work. That said, at least there was a discernible skills change behind his 2015 work. He cut his strikeout rate to a career-best 12%, saw a spike in batting average on balls in play to .314 -- which isn't egregious -- and it led to a .287 batting average. He actually had a near one to one strikeout to walk ratio in 2789 minor league PA with a 10% strikeout rate and 9% walk rate, so maybe his '15 is a harbinger of things to come. For now, he's a second catcher in AL-only leagues, but keep an eye on him in your deep leagues. He wouldn't be the first catcher to see his hitting take a leap forward in his late-20s, early-30s. (Paul Sporer)

The Quick Opinion: Clevenger parlayed a contact-first approach into a decent little line... in 105 plate appearances. A trade out to Seattle upgrades him from third-string to second-string most likely, and starter Chris Iannetta has been a disaster against righties the last three years, so Clevenger could be in a favorable platoon if things break right.

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